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Spiritual teachings by Shunyamurti, the founder and director of the Sat Yoga Ashram - a wisdom school, ashram, and the home of a vibrant spiritual community based in Costa Rica. Visit us at satyoga.org
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
A True Leader? - 12.01.09
Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
Student Question: Is it possible for a true leader to emerge within today’s world? I feel like we have to come to a place like this—where we exclude the world out there—in order to cut through our own Maya and the Maya of others, and the society at large.
“We don’t exclude the world. We invite the world, and we want to become a model of a functioning community that can act in ways that are true and authentic,” explains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “All historians who have studied this subject recognize that civilizations have life spans. They’re born, they have a Golden Age, they expand on the basis of the wisdom of the founding fathers and mothers, etc . . . and it becomes more and more corrupted as they gain more profit. The ego appropriates everything. Pretty soon they become like those they originally rebelled against, and their freedom now turns into a self-enslavement and an enslavement of others. They become so corrupt that they cannot survive, and they gradually die.”
“Today we’re at the point of the death of a global civilization. And the system is too corrupted and sick to allow a leader, like the kind that you hypothetically mentioned, to survive. . . . And so we are at a time now in which the fall cannot be prevented . . .but now we’re at a point that—because it is global and planet-wide—and because it is not only political, but it is also ecological . . . it has to be resolved in a far more radical way than could be done in any ordinary, conventional mindset. And this requires a quantum leap in our understanding of the nature of reality as being very than our ego minds have presented it to us as. And that requires a transcendence of the ego and a downloading of Cosmic Intelligence. And nothing short of that is going to help.” Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 1, 2009.Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
Immeasurable Consequences - 12.01.09
Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
Student Question: We were reading an essay yesterday about the spiritual path and this point one reaches when one has the knowing and understanding that every action has immeasurable consequences. Can you elaborate on these immeasurable consequences?
“The world is one whole,” explains Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Everyone is interconnected. And this entanglement “even transcends what we think of the universe.” So anything that happens in any galaxy, in any culture—even in the unconscious mind—“will have an effect on the whole. . . . We are all connected.” And the more we are dedicated to the spiritual path, the more powerful are the effects we can have on the world. “And we have that ability to set the whole world on fire again with spiritual love and bliss if we’re willing to do it all the way, not just halfway.” Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 1, 2009.Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
God Shall be Worshiped by None but God - 12.01.09
Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
Tuesday Dec 01, 2009
There is a paradoxical statement in the Vedas that says, “God shall be worshiped by none but God,” reveals Shunyamurti, the spiritual leader of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “You’re not allowed, and you cannot worship God unless you realize you are God. That is what real worship of God means, that you realize the Godhood, otherwise it’s not true worship.” And when we realize that we are gods and goddesses, “And we realize what that means is not, ‘Oh the ego is a god over others.’ No, but one has surrendered the ego to the true God-consciousness. Then we are free to see each other in a state of unconditional love.” Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 1, 2009.